Word: falle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Early this fall Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III launched an investigation into the society's financial situation when the orchestra became saddled with a large and unexpected debt resulting from financial mismanagement by last year's officers...
Never mind that the hot stove league sounded more like a pot boiler with stories of the Wade Boggs extramarital affair. The opening pitch in the 51 degree chill had the atmosphere of a fall playoff and the cheers--even for Boggs--from the sellout crowd seemed to indicate that the team's dismal start was forgotten, if only...
...designs (from 100 rubles for a simple jacket to 1,000 rubles for a full suit) to a small group of relatively prosperous rock musicians, artists and filmmakers. With the aid of newly relaxed travel restrictions, the two are hoping to take their creations to New York City this fall. Who knows? If the hammer-and-sickle designs become popular enough in the West, they may wind up as eagerly sought after items in a place that already covets such Western garb as T-shirts and dungarees: the Soviet Union...
...show. Soviet manufacturers cranked out a record 100,000 microcomputers last year, bringing the total number of personal computers to an estimated 200,000. That is a far cry from the 30 million machines Moscow estimates the country can absorb. By all accounts, Gorbachev's electronic- literacy program will fall far short of its ambitious goal of installing a million computers in the schools...
Brezhnev has suffered an even more dramatic fall from grace. His strongest negative rating, 80%, comes from Communist Party members who bitterly blame him for abusing his post and causing the party's prestige to decline. On the other hand, Nikita Khrushchev, a reformer of sorts who was thrown out of office and saw his reputation tarnished before he died, is enjoying a modest boost in popularity. More than 29% view him favorably, compared with only 5% for Brezhnev...